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Vertical line - name and how-to re-create
RE the vertical line that's used as a slash all over pages--just look at the
top of the Office Online page; it appears between Office Home and Office Worldwide--(1) what is it called (2) how do you create it? Many, many thanks. |
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If you are talking about the pipe (|) character, it's usually above the
backslash (\) on a keyboard. The exact location will depend on the keyboard. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "proofreader" wrote in message ... RE the vertical line that's used as a slash all over pages--just look at the top of the Office Online page; it appears between Office Home and Office Worldwide--(1) what is it called (2) how do you create it? Many, many thanks. |
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Thank you Suzanne! On my keyboard it actually appears as 2 vertical dashes.
(I had hoped you would answer because I know you use that character. And now I know what it's called!). "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: If you are talking about the pipe (|) character, it's usually above the backslash (\) on a keyboard. The exact location will depend on the keyboard. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "proofreader" wrote in message ... RE the vertical line that's used as a slash all over pages--just look at the top of the Office Online page; it appears between Office Home and Office Worldwide--(1) what is it called (2) how do you create it? Many, many thanks. |
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Now that you mention it, that's how it looks on my (Dell) keyboard as well.
I imagine it prints that way in some fonts. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "proofreader" wrote in message ... Thank you Suzanne! On my keyboard it actually appears as 2 vertical dashes. (I had hoped you would answer because I know you use that character. And now I know what it's called!). "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: If you are talking about the pipe (|) character, it's usually above the backslash (\) on a keyboard. The exact location will depend on the keyboard. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "proofreader" wrote in message ... RE the vertical line that's used as a slash all over pages--just look at the top of the Office Online page; it appears between Office Home and Office Worldwide--(1) what is it called (2) how do you create it? Many, many thanks. |
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This conversation interested me because I always thought that character had
a different "typographic" name, and I was surprised you called it the computer-ese "pipe". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipe_character I particularly chuckled at its use in Khoisan orthography. g I distinctly remember the old green-screen monitors showing the two vertical bars and needing ASCII 179 to get a true vertical bar. When did these two characters get mixed/subsumed/whatever? Dan "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... Now that you mention it, that's how it looks on my (Dell) keyboard as well. I imagine it prints that way in some fonts. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "proofreader" wrote in message ... Thank you Suzanne! On my keyboard it actually appears as 2 vertical dashes. (I had hoped you would answer because I know you use that character. And now I know what it's called!). "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: If you are talking about the pipe (|) character, it's usually above the backslash (\) on a keyboard. The exact location will depend on the keyboard. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "proofreader" wrote in message ... RE the vertical line that's used as a slash all over pages--just look at the top of the Office Online page; it appears between Office Home and Office Worldwide--(1) what is it called (2) how do you create it? Many, many thanks. |
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"Pipe" is the only name I'd heard for it in Word/computer circles, and I was
glad to have any name at all. Obviously, this was a character that did not appear on typewriter keyboards (any more than the backslash), so I was not familiar with it from my many decades as a typist. The referenced Wikipedia article doesn't seem to offer anything more esoteric ("vertical bar," "vertical line," etc.--anybody could have thought of those). -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Dan Freeman" wrote in message ... This conversation interested me because I always thought that character had a different "typographic" name, and I was surprised you called it the computer-ese "pipe". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipe_character I particularly chuckled at its use in Khoisan orthography. g I distinctly remember the old green-screen monitors showing the two vertical bars and needing ASCII 179 to get a true vertical bar. When did these two characters get mixed/subsumed/whatever? Dan "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... Now that you mention it, that's how it looks on my (Dell) keyboard as well. I imagine it prints that way in some fonts. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "proofreader" wrote in message ... Thank you Suzanne! On my keyboard it actually appears as 2 vertical dashes. (I had hoped you would answer because I know you use that character. And now I know what it's called!). "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: If you are talking about the pipe (|) character, it's usually above the backslash (\) on a keyboard. The exact location will depend on the keyboard. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "proofreader" wrote in message ... RE the vertical line that's used as a slash all over pages--just look at the top of the Office Online page; it appears between Office Home and Office Worldwide--(1) what is it called (2) how do you create it? Many, many thanks. |
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